Tuesday, March 12, 2013

1303.2509 (Patrick Peter)

Cosmological Perturbation Theory    [PDF]

Patrick Peter
A short pedagogical overview of cosmological perturbation theory, following the lectures given during the brazilian school of cosmology held in August 2012. Topics treated are: I. The background II. SVT decomposition and the gauge issue. III. The example of the tensor modes. IV. Density fluctuations, transfer function and power spectrum. V. Initial condition theory: quantum vacuum fluctuations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2509

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